Jaap Nienhuis
Jaap Nienhuis is a civil engineer and earth scientist, focused on understanding river deltas and barrier islands. He got his BSc and MSc degree in Civil Engineering from Twente University, the Netherlands. After completing his degrees Jaap moved to the USA and obtained his PhD degree from MIT and WHOI working on wave-driven coastal sediment transport and coastal change. Following postdoctoral research on the Mississippi River Delta at Tulane University in New Orleans, Jaap Nienhuis started a faculty position at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. In 2019, he joined Utrecht University. His latest work involves building simplified numerical models of river delta and barrier island change, on timescales of 10-1000 years, to understand past changes and project their future dynamics as a result of wave, tidal, fluvial processes, and sea-level rise.
Positions
- 2019 – now Utrecht University Geosciences Assistant Professor
- 2017 – 2018 Florida State University Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science Assistant Professor
- 2017 – 2018 Wageningen UR Hydrology and Water Management Lecturer/Researcher
- 2016 – 2017 Tulane University Earth and Environmental Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow
- 2012 – 2015 MIT / WHOI Marine Geology & Geophysics PhD Student
- 2011 – 2012 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Geology & Geophysics Researcher
- 2011 – 2012 Royal Haskoning Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) Software Developer
- 2006 – 2011 Twente University Civil Engineering (minor: Mathematics) BSc/MSc Student
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